Thanks for all who cared and tried to help.
It makes me wonder in this day of sensitive voltages and computers, just how many injectors, etc. have been unnecessarily replaced at great expense because of the lost skill of troubleshooting and time sensitive shop policies.
As a High School senior in the late seventies in my Vocational Auto Mechanics three period class (yes, I had a pretty awesome senior year) we started getting an idea of what was coming in the automotive industry. I didn't ever think I would understand a computer, let alone own one (several?). Electronics was my dad's thing - and his was tubes changed to transistors. Huh? Resistance, etc.? I had a two by four kind of mindset. I chose a different line of work.
But mechanics always remained a hobby and a necessity to making a family budget work. Man we saved some money over the years. Always preferred OEM over customization.
But my mechanics instructor gave such good concept lessons, I still use them today, all the time. Troubleshooting! (Thanks teachers BTW).
Then when I got the old Willys and read some books, Granville King (wrote the Jeep Bible), always said in troubleshooting, it is more often ignition than fuel, and I discovered he was right on more than one occasion. He also said, when there's a problem, what did you work on last? Start there.
That's what I did here; where had I been messing? That small heater hose, and that fuel filter. Look at it, think about it. Again, the ideology worked out and this time I was saved, even though I don't know diesel as well as gas.
It always bothers me when the Optician tries to mark your eyeball location before adjusting the frames to fit your face. Cart? Horse? Must we always risk offending by telling someone their job? Old people have wisdom. Youth! Learn to listen, learn to think! And don't let my generalization offend you!
But it's the same in a shop. Sometimes. Other times... well those guys really save my bacon, like the guys at the Big-O tire store the other day when I really thought I had stepped on it big time with some lug nut studs.
I won't say, all's well that ends well, but I will say, I'm happy.
I discovered dielectric grease many years ago when I changed a tail light bulb. I thought what dumba$$ had greased an electrical socket? I discovered electronic electrical cleaner sometime later. Again, today's sensitive electronics in the harsh vehicle environment. Well, I learned something new to add to the wisdom bank this time. ๐
